I have seen hardware based RAID-5 run slower then non-RAID, but by
playing with the cache settings in the RAID BIOS it sped up a lot (still
slower then non-RAID though). Anyways, it seems doubtful that the RAID
is that much slower... Driver issue with the RAID card?

-steve

filip.moons wrote:

>> Could it be that the CPU's are basically idle because they are
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> That's what i think too but kinda hard to explain to the customer that
> its expensive system isn't that smooth as he thinks it is. On top of
> that customer states his other apps (SYBASE) aren't slow at all.
> Is firebird more demanding on HW, especially HD performance, then
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